From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat Sep 27 2003 - 22:06:28 BST
Sam, Platt and all:
Sam said:
I see Pirsig as giving an old idea new linguistic clothes (reality is
morality is Quality = reality is God).
dmb says:
Right. Sort of. I think its more like DQ is the creator and sq is the
created, but the two are actually One. I think the Augustine and Aquinas
quotes could be read that way. As Pirsig put it...
"He thought about how once this integration occurs and Dynamic Quality is
identified with religious mysticism it produces an avalanche of information
as to what Dynamic Quality is. A lot of this religious mysticism is just
low-grade "yelpig about God" of course, but if your search fro the sources
of it and don't take the yelps too literally a lot of interesting things
turn up."
In any case, Pirsig's DQ is lightyears away from being just "a compliment we
pay after the fact" or anything like that. Clearly, he's refering to the
divine.
thanks,
dmb
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